Degeneracy: What A Beautiful Thing

$10 that your friend can't get that group of girls back to our house tonight. $10 that Cow and Ringer's HU poker match at O'Shea's lasts longer than 7 minutes. $10 on who can knock down the most pins at Wii bowling. $20 on real bowling matches. $100 if you have sex with an 18 year old. $10/ball in pool; who cares if your teammate doesn't even know how to rack the balls? $20 on hard ten please. That's just a few samples of the kind of gambling that has been going on in the past week.

The other night we decided to go to Gold Coast at 3AM and I wasn't too enthused because I knew there would be prop betting and I suck at bowling. Luckily Ringer gave me a helpful pointer...it's all about the follow-through and not so much about flinging the ball as hard as I can hoping that it goes straight and knocks the shit out of the pins. I bowled an 83 the 1st game, a 102 the 2nd game, and a 136 the third game. I had $30 riding on the 3rd game, in which Cow and I bet straight up and I won, and Ringer gave me 55 pins which I didn't even need because I beat his ass straight up (he bowled a 127...I know this b/c I took a picture for documentation purposes).

Also, I've mastered the game of craps. I'm not going to give you all my secrets because I'm obviously writing a book, but basically I bet the don't pass line and be really loud and obnoxiuos at the table yelling for sevens. At the Palms the other night I started doing this and my roomies joined in and we ended up running everyone else off, which was fine because we all killed it. Last night at Bill's I made $325 pretty quickly doing this ($25 on don't pass, $150 when I can put my 6x odds down), and then later came back to the tables again. Cow wanted half my action so I let him take it like a fool...and I proceeded to win $700 so I got to keep $350. Oh, and I did hit that hard ten bet btw...ship the $160!! I felt pretty good about being up $575 for the night (should've been $675 but Coordi lost me $100 playing roulette when we split action), but as we were leaving Bill's I figured I may as well try to run my profit up to something a little bigger...so off to roulette to put $400 on black. I was a little sad when it rolled off red, but meh it's only money...they print more every day right? It's all good because on the way out from O'Sheas I put $200 on black and won, finishing up $375 in table games for the night. Since I've been here I'm up a sick amount from table games, but I'm sure that luck will change soon. Hopefully I won't end up like TJ Cloutier, whom we saw playing $15 craps the other day at the Rio even though he has like $5 million in tourney cashes and is rumored to have lost it all at craps.